Richard M. Linnehan
E412028
Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard M. Linnehan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2389173 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard M. Linnehan Context triple: [STS-109, missionSpecialist, Richard M. Linnehan]
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A.
Joseph A. McDonough
Joseph A. McDonough was a Hollywood film assistant director recognized in the 1930s for his award-winning work in the early years of the Academy Awards.
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B.
Edward M. Egan
Edward M. Egan was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the early 21st century.
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C.
Brian Moynihan
Brian Moynihan is an American lawyer and businessman who serves as the longtime chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America.
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D.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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E.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard M. Linnehan Target entity description: Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A.
Joseph A. McDonough
Joseph A. McDonough was a Hollywood film assistant director recognized in the 1930s for his award-winning work in the early years of the Academy Awards.
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B.
Edward M. Egan
Edward M. Egan was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the early 21st century.
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C.
Brian Moynihan
Brian Moynihan is an American lawyer and businessman who serves as the longtime chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America.
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D.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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E.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
human ⓘ veterinarian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Texas A&M University
ⓘ
Ohio State University ⓘ
surface form:
The Ohio State University
University of New Hampshire ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Linnehan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
space exploration
ⓘ
space medicine ⓘ veterinary medicine ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
ⓘ
bachelor’s degree in animal sciences ⓘ master’s degree in veterinary medicine ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
microgravity life sciences research
ⓘ
neurological research in space ⓘ payload operations on Space Shuttle ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEVAs | multiple ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpaceflights | 4 ⓘ |
| hasOccupationSpecialization | spacewalking veterinarian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Corps ⓘ |
| missionRole | mission specialist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining veterinary medicine with human spaceflight research
ⓘ
spacewalks on Hubble servicing mission ⓘ work on multiple Space Shuttle missions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
assembly and maintenance tasks on the ISS
ⓘ
life sciences experiments on STS-78 ⓘ Neurolab ⓘ
surface form:
neurolab experiments on STS-90
servicing the Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
veterinarian ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
STS-109
ⓘ
STS-123 ⓘ STS-78 ⓘ STS-90 ⓘ |
| performed |
extravehicular activity
ⓘ
spacewalk ⓘ |
| selectedAsAstronautBy | NASA ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spaceShuttleFlownOn |
Space Shuttle Columbia
ⓘ
Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ Space Shuttle Endeavour ⓘ |
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Richard M. Linnehan Description of subject: Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.